The Love Song of T. Jordan Pefok: Siebatcheu at Borussia Mönchengladbach

Jordy probably told them to take a number and wait in line.

 

https://www.ouest-france.fr/sport/f...-et-zeffane-pour-le-deplacement-lille-5916491
Still injured, so he won't be available for Rennes' opening match this Saturday against Lille. He hopes to be ready by the next match against Angers, though who knows if he will be.

 

He's a Yank through and through.

 

The doll must be working

 

I know, but I had to switch to the bigger one, the little one wasn't working.

 

He's out again for this Saturday's Ligue 1 match against Angers. The second-to-last set of France U21 Euro qualifying matches is less than a month away and he was already facing tough odds of a callup. I estimate about five strikers in the France U21 pool who are currently ahead of him, and in case they are looking to call up a new target man, then Jean-Philippe Mateta might have the edge.

 

On the bench:

[#OMSRFC]
Les remplaçants :
Abdoulaye Diallo, Romain Danzé, Gerzino Nyamsi, Denis-Will Poha, Romain Del Castillo, Diafra Sakho, Jordan Siebatcheu#ToutDonner 💪🔴⚫

— Stade Rennais F.C. (@staderennais) August 26, 2018

 

Late reply but how would he be eligible for the U21s if he’s 22?

 

because in reality it's a U23 tournament, likely because the U21 EC serve as the Olympics qualifier. Also some leagues call their reserve U21 even when it's U23.

 

Debuts for his new club:

69e : Premier changement : Jordan Siebatcheu, alias Pefok, remplace James Léa-Siliki.#OMSRFC 1-2#ToutDonner pic.twitter.com/Qmeu6qr4Go

— Stade Rennais F.C. (@staderennais) August 26, 2018

 

Recap of his France U21 competition this week among those who can play striker:

Jean-Philippe Mateta (direct competitor for a callup in case France U21 want a tall target forward): started for Mainz in Bundesliga
Jean-Kevin Augustin: started for RB Leipzig in Bundesliga, scored a goal
Moussa Dembele: started for Celtic in Scottish Premiership
Jonathan Bamba: started for Lille in Ligue 1, scored 2 goals
Martin Terrier: started for Lyon in Ligue 1, scored a goal
Adama Diakhaby: started for Huddersfield in EPL
Lys Mousset: subbed in for Bournemouth in EPL
Yann Karamoah: stayed on the bench for Inter in Serie A

 

It's a semantic difference. UEFA names the age of the team based on the start of the qualification rather than the end. Their U17s are what we could call U19s usually.

 

lol the french attacking players under 23, is just insane. can eventually become one of the best generation position groups in football history.

 

Yup. And who I listed is only the "France U21" competition, not the full pool of eligibles which would include Mbappe and O. Dembele (could play for U21s but already graduated to the senior national team) as well as the likes of Amine Gouiri and Willem Geubbels (with a lower youth team and could soon jump up to the U21s). It's truly staggering.

 

I thought Marcus Thuram was impressive in the PSG v Guingamp game

 

how is it possible that France has so much talent? It boggles the mind. And then think of all of the talented players who don't play for France (but are eligible)

 

Having a lot of poor immigrants and a system that doesn't try as hard as possible to exclude them helps.

 

I wonder if it's a case of "if I do well...I'm Swedish/French...but if I do poorly then I'm a immigrant/foreigner"

I believe Ibrahimovic/Benzema said something to this effect some years ago.

It's still quite incredible. I wanna say the likes of England and Netherlands can compare; as they have players of various backgrounds and many represent those homelands. But none to the quality of French-born players. I believe Germany just has an abundance of players of Turkish descent. Probably can call-up a squad of German-born Turks that's better than the actual Turkish national team.

 

it goes in cycles...netherlands is on a down-swing at the moment but i dont think that has anything to do with their immigrant soccer players not having to fight to be "dutch"....if im following....
i agree about germany....germany is more multi-cultural than it might appear on the surface...even podolski and klose are polish-heritage....i think it is just as simple as the soccer climate in those countries being conducive to developing high-level players....france and germany breathe soccer....

 

France acedmies are good. The league give youth a chance to play. They turn out talent and keep players fighting and coming through

 

And Mesut Ozil this summer. In his case it's quite simply an out-of-form player blaming political/ethnic issues for his poor performances for a team that had a shocking World Cup.

And, regardless of who was at fault on the political/ethnic side of things, on a purely footballing basis taking him to Russia was questionable; he'd been really poor for Arsenal nearly all season, especially in terms of providingleadership at a club that desperately needed it. Jogi Low was hoping he'd play himself into form at a World Cup, which doesn't happen very often and both of them paid the price.

 

Jordy needs to be calling the USSF, not the other way around.

If a player doesn't believe in himself he's go no business in pro sports, but that's just unreal. If every striker who's had more than 5 caps for France in the last two years magically retired, he'll be doing very well to make fourth in that particular depth chart. And there are new players to come through this season as well.

Know when to hold 'em, and know when to fold 'em. It's time to fold.

 

If there's one group that might be able to match France attackers, it might be France CBs. The depth of players age 25 or younger they have at that one position is beyond staggering. Laporte hasn't been capped at senior level. This series of tweets was written just before Lenglet moved to Barcelona, Diallo to Dortmund, Diakhaby to Valencia, Diop to West Ham, Niakhate to Mainz, Mukiele to RB Leipzig. Pavard may go to Bayern or Liverpool. Sarr of Nice was named this year by one publication as one of the top five most promising footballers in the world under 20. They also did not list Joris Gnagnon of Sevilla, Oumar Solet of Lyon, and Jeremy Gelin of Rennes, and more. And these are all just senior players, not including academy/reserve players. They have teenage CBs at clubs like Roma, PSG, Monaco who may soon be part of the first team. And certainly many other young CBs about to break into smaller Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs.

France's depth in terms of young centre-backs:
Raphaël Varane (24) - Real Madrid
Samuel Umtiti (24) - Barcelona
Aymeric Laporte (23) - Manchester City
Presnel Kimpembe (22) - PSG
Clément Lenglet (22) - Sevilla
Abdou Diallo (21) - Mainz
Dayot Upamecano (19) - RB Leipzig

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) March 26, 2018

France's depth in terms of young centre-backs cont:
Kurt Zouma (23) - Chelsea FC
Moussa Niakhaté (22) - FC Metz
Lucas Hernandez (22) - Atletico Madrid
Benjamin Pavard (21) - VfB Stuttgart
Issa Diop (21) - Toulouse FC
Malang Sarr (19) - OGC Nice
Dan-Axel Zagadou (18) - Dortmund

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) March 26, 2018

France's depth in terms of young centre-backs cont:
Christopher Jullien (25) - Toulouse FC
Mouctar Diakhaby (21) - Lyon
Nordi Mukiele (20) - Montpellier HSC
Jules Koundé (19) - Bordeaux
Ibrahima Konaté (18) - RB Leipzig

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) March 26, 2018